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J. E. SCOTT.

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No. 415,176. Patented Nov. 12, 1889.

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N. PETERS, Halo-Lithographer, Washinglon. n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN E. SCOTT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES E. JONES, GUARDIAN OF CHARLES R. HALL, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,176, dated November 12, 1889.

Application filed August 14, 1889. Serial No. 320,737. (No model.)

To (0% whom it may concern: circumferential wall B are arranged a series Be it known that I, JOHN E. SCOTT, a citiof four subdividing-walls D, that radiate zen of the United States, residing at Philafrom the center of the apparatus at right andelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and gles to each other, and whose outer ends form State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new contact with the inner surface of the circumand useful Improvement in Toys, of which ferential inclosing-wall B, thus dividing the the following is a specification. apparatus into four equal compartments.

The invention relates to an improvement Each of these compartments E has a series of in toys; and it'consists of a circular disk upwardly-projecting walls G, equidistant 10 formed of card-board and constructed confrom each other and secured upon their lower cave upon its upper surface, and surrounded edges to the upper surface of the base A, by an upwardly-projecting wall or border. thus forming the segmental concentric chan- The upper surface of the disk is divided nels L. into four equal compartments by partitions N are passage-ways or openings-one upon I 5 that extend across it at right angles to each each wall G-arranged alternately with each other, terminating with and attached to the other, that permit of the passage of the balls inner surface of the surrounding border. T through the channels from the circumfer- Each of the subdivisions formed by said parence of the apparatus to the center, or vice titions is subdivided into concentric chanversa, as desired.

2o nels by walls that extend perpendicularly, The mode of operation is as follows: A se- 7c and whose lower edges are attached to the ries of four balls is used in the performance upper surface of the concave base. These of the game, one being placed in each comwalls have each a passage or opening in one partment at the center, if desired,they being end, alternating with each other in each sub separated from each other by the subdivid- 25 division, that permit of the passage or traving-walls D, which cross each other at that ersing of a sphere (when placed in the outer point. Then the apparatus is so manipuchannel) to the center of the apparatus, or lated by moving or tilting from a level posi-- in a reverse direction when placed at the tion as to cause the spheres to traverse center, as the apparatus is manipulated by through the circuitous channels L and pas- 0 inclining its concave surface, as will be more sages N to the outer channel at the interfully understood from the following descripsection of the walls G with walls D, or to be tion. returned again to the center by a vice-versa In the accompanying drawings, which make operation, if desired. a part of this specification, Figure .l repre- I claim as my invention- 3 5 sents a plan or surface view of the toy. Fig. The apparatus herein described, consisting 2 is a vertical section taken through the line of the base A, having a concave surface (l a a of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a like view taken and having a circumferential inclosing-wall through the line Z) l) of Fig. l. B, said surface d being subdivided into com- Like letters in all the figures indicate the partments by means of the walls D, said comc same parts. partments being divided into concentric chan- The toy, for cheapness of material and con-' nels L by means of the concentric walls G, struction, I propose manufacturing of paper having openings N arranged alternately in card-board,thebase orbottomAbeing stamped the ends of said walls G, and the balls T,subbetween dies or other suitable mechanism stantially in the manner herein shown and 45 into the shape of an inverted cone, so as to described.

form the lowest point of the upper surface (1 at the center. This base A is surrounded by a wall B, also of cardboard, extending Vitnesses: upward vertically, its lower edge being united THOMAS J. BEWLEY, 50 to the periphery of the base A. IVithin the CHARLES E. JONES.

JOHN E. SCOTT. 

